Today I started another page that allows me to keep the planners all in one place. For those who wish to see how that works, you can click on the link above, “Her Weekly Planner.”
I had somewhat lost my way on this blog, with the checklists here. I want to renew my purpose on this page by writing on topics to inspire and motivate. I plan to get back to setting goals for taking in the information that motivates and inspires me and then writing about it here.
Back to the purpose for which I started this blog!
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Renewing My Motivation
I am noticing that my motivation is on the increase!
I look back at an astonishing amount time wasted over the past several months. My checklists show accomplishment each day, but I need to work on items that actually make forward progress, not just maintain. Television is what I gave too much time to, and I typically watch TV only when I can double-task, with an occasional plan to watch something with my husband, such as a movie or a program he has recorded. It is not easy for me to just watch a program, but if I do not make that decision on a regular basis to watch something with him, then I end up working in our home office every evening and much of the weekend, while he watches TV in the family room. I need to become more creative on tasks I can do while being in the family room, watching something with him. And this is not every night, just sometimes.
Too much clutter has built up. It gets tucked away and then later it is pulled out to work on. Then, when it’s not completed, it gets tucked away again. I feel like I have actually lost may way in all of this! I think I have attempted to be too accommodating to my adult children.
Also, I had a job change last August that brought a lot of stress. Since last August I have had only one day off, to use up my personal day. Recently the administration made a change that moved my former boss into a new area and gave me a new boss. Along with the change, I am finally getting a promotion, which is viewed as a Phase I change. I think I am beginning to have hope that the office will change enough to allow me to plan for time off. I have not enjoyed that I have not been able to control my work and plan my days. It has not been easy. I now have almost 1900 e-mails in the Inbox and another 900 in my Sent mail, all of which need a quick review at the least. Others need careful attention.
I had put in a work order for rearranging my space, and that’s happening tomorrow. I hope that goes smoothly and quickly so that I can also accomplish real work.
Now to fold/hang the laundry and write on my white board for Monday’s plans.
Then to bed!
I look back at an astonishing amount time wasted over the past several months. My checklists show accomplishment each day, but I need to work on items that actually make forward progress, not just maintain. Television is what I gave too much time to, and I typically watch TV only when I can double-task, with an occasional plan to watch something with my husband, such as a movie or a program he has recorded. It is not easy for me to just watch a program, but if I do not make that decision on a regular basis to watch something with him, then I end up working in our home office every evening and much of the weekend, while he watches TV in the family room. I need to become more creative on tasks I can do while being in the family room, watching something with him. And this is not every night, just sometimes.
Too much clutter has built up. It gets tucked away and then later it is pulled out to work on. Then, when it’s not completed, it gets tucked away again. I feel like I have actually lost may way in all of this! I think I have attempted to be too accommodating to my adult children.
Also, I had a job change last August that brought a lot of stress. Since last August I have had only one day off, to use up my personal day. Recently the administration made a change that moved my former boss into a new area and gave me a new boss. Along with the change, I am finally getting a promotion, which is viewed as a Phase I change. I think I am beginning to have hope that the office will change enough to allow me to plan for time off. I have not enjoyed that I have not been able to control my work and plan my days. It has not been easy. I now have almost 1900 e-mails in the Inbox and another 900 in my Sent mail, all of which need a quick review at the least. Others need careful attention.
I had put in a work order for rearranging my space, and that’s happening tomorrow. I hope that goes smoothly and quickly so that I can also accomplish real work.
Now to fold/hang the laundry and write on my white board for Monday’s plans.
Then to bed!
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Projects #1 and #4
Last fall I was attempting to get well organized with goals for 2013. Then my job took on some frustrations, and I got off track on many things. So this month I am trying to get back in gear.
I had some projects to take care of, and I assigned the light table to be #1, on January 2, 2013:
So I began to sort and organize.
And here’s the end result, at that time, January 3, 2013:
Recently it got loaded up again, so I have cleared it once again, but things are now all over another table, waiting to be sorted and put away.
Project #2 was my desk. Project #3 is the metal cupboard. But as I cleared the table I needed to take care of clearing space in the file cabinet, thus establishing Project #4, the File Cabinet. I emptied this many files:
I created this much space:
But I haven’t put things in the drawers yet. I have kept them out, I think, to sort before I put stuff in drawers again. But that hasn’t worked. Piles around to sort! That’s no fun!
I had some projects to take care of, and I assigned the light table to be #1, on January 2, 2013:
So I began to sort and organize.
And here’s the end result, at that time, January 3, 2013:
Recently it got loaded up again, so I have cleared it once again, but things are now all over another table, waiting to be sorted and put away.
Project #2 was my desk. Project #3 is the metal cupboard. But as I cleared the table I needed to take care of clearing space in the file cabinet, thus establishing Project #4, the File Cabinet. I emptied this many files:
I created this much space:
But I haven’t put things in the drawers yet. I have kept them out, I think, to sort before I put stuff in drawers again. But that hasn’t worked. Piles around to sort! That’s no fun!
Clearing Up Clutter
I had made great strides on projects earlier this year. I had written lengthy posts about them, too. But when I became frustrated at some point, I went back and deleted them. I just double-checked the definitions of obsessive, compulsive, and obesessive-compulsive. Yeah, there’s some of that. Because I had determined that blogging was what was causing me to accomplish less, I “had” to back and clean up the blog. For the umpteenth time, I am trying to see that I do better when posting, and I think it is because I have to be more diligent with all my tasks when I am taking time to post. I can certainly say:
Today, I want to make progress in the office, where most of the clutter accumulates.
If it needs to be sorted, it goes to the office.
If someone wants to clear a space, the stuff goes to the office.
If they don’t know where to put it or don’t have room in their own space, it sits in the office.
If we have too many scrap signs, they are in the office.
If the papers are yet to filed, they are lying about the office.
I have accomplished no more by blogging less.
Today, I want to make progress in the office, where most of the clutter accumulates.
If it needs to be sorted, it goes to the office.
If someone wants to clear a space, the stuff goes to the office.
If they don’t know where to put it or don’t have room in their own space, it sits in the office.
If we have too many scrap signs, they are in the office.
If the papers are yet to filed, they are lying about the office.
I can reduce the clutter.
I can get the projects going!
After all, this blog is about Life . . . and Growth.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Monthly Bills Due Dates
Tithe, of course
3 P insurance B & J
8 B Earthlink
10 P insurance J
10 P insurance A
15 P utilities
24 P Verizon/FIOS
28 P mortgage
29 B Grasshopper
FDOR July 15 & December 15
cars (March 25 & September 25)
house (May)
Although we always paid off our full balance each month on credit cards, we go rid of those a couple years ago.
These are the regular bills. Of course, we have other business expenses with our home business, which we have operated since January 1989.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Making a Useful Checklist
Dan Miller (of 48 Days) reminds listeners, in almost every podcast, about realizing that choices are not just either/or.
I have discovered that my battle about a blog checklist is between not doing a checklist at all OR doing one that has nearly every task I complete each evening—obsessively so!
Today it occurred to me that I could be losing track of To Dos with checking in here each day. So I shall start again, with the plan to use the list for things I want to remember to do. I know that it may or may note include routine tasks, but I shall try not to obsess about it.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Well . . . this isn't working at the moment.
I try, then stop, then try again on the checklists.
Right now it is not working for me.
Coming Up
offertory on June 30
locate yellow sheet magnet
card #3 for Joe
mower on Craigslist
voice mail message(s)
donate plasma
dental work
update login/password list
update phone contacts
2009 pennies
Project #2 desk and papers
Project #3 cupboard
Project # 6 garage sale
Project #5 floor storage
finish Rise Above
read As a Man Thinketh
increase prices, new ad and order form
Bible study
character cassettes
write of light v dark
write of word for the year
freedom in Christ and the grace to say yes or grace to say
Right now it is not working for me.
Coming Up
offertory on June 30
locate yellow sheet magnet
card #3 for Joe
mower on Craigslist
voice mail message(s)
donate plasma
dental work
update login/password list
update phone contacts
2009 pennies
Project #2 desk and papers
Project #3 cupboard
Project # 6 garage sale
Project #5 floor storage
finish Rise Above
read As a Man Thinketh
increase prices, new ad and order form
Bible study
character cassettes
write of light v dark
write of word for the year
freedom in Christ and the grace to say yes or grace to say
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